Actually I don't think any western country would help us there... Otherwise we'd have already done that. If India gets this capability our Economy may get serious boost.
The Make in India thing would become an outright reality. Indian smartphones would start rolling.
India imports about 95% chips and assemble them in our country. We import almost 100% the assembly line machines. The few chips we do fabricate at DRDO, BEL, SITAR, CDIL, SCL etc. are outdated and made only for research purposes.
India doesn't have R&D facility. Our government alloted just 150 crores for R&D.
MNREGA got a lot of money so that people can get corrupt. But don't develop anything.
Taiwan owns MediaTek. And Few big companies like Acer, Asus, and HTC. Processors hence are cheap.
India - Taiwan collaboration can actually be a lifeline for our Economy. But I don't think our leaders & babus are serious about any of that. We're in dire need of visionaries.
We import 100% chips lol.
Even other parts like the PCB, packaged battery, chassis, camera module, screen, speaker/mic everything is imported in CKD/SKD format, since the goal is to juke duties by assembling here, Completely Built Up phones when imported would cost a bomb in terms of duties.
The assembly done here is for domestic market only, solely to juke duties, there in lies the problem.
These companies have no intention to export from India normally, Xiaomeme + Taiwanese ODM partners, BBK, import all subcomponents and assemblies from China, ICs from Japan, Korea, Taiwan etc.
Samsung has built up Vietnam as it's export base, so they source from there.
Only because of PLI lalach we can hope to see some export oriented results
Taiwan is the best partner compared to Western chus because we can get a lot of things from them for cheap as a part of a deal for recognizing them officially, Western companies will do nakhra and be expensive.
Taiwan is world leader in 3 fields.
- Semiconductor fabrication, TSMC is easily most famous and world leader, but they have two other Fab companies also, their names escape me.
- IC Design, many Taiwanese companies like Realtek have a 100% lock on niche products like audio chips for PC/Laptops, and also MediaTek as you mentioned.
- Electronics assembly and subcomponent production, Foxconn, Wistron, Compal and some others have a total lock over all electronics production on the planet, these companies produce phones, laptops, computers, servers and other products through China for export to the world market, they are best in class.
As a part of a deal recognizing Taiwan, we must ask for Indian subsidiaries or collaboration in the above mentioned 3 fields, with fabs being prioritized.